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Bitter :: Bitter (v. t.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life..

Distress :: Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Emotion :: Emotion (n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body..

Anxiously :: Anxiously (adv.) In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

Nipping :: Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind..

Careful :: Careful (a.) Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful..

Cruel :: Cruel (a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

Pungent :: Pungent (v. t.) Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

Exercise :: Exercise (v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain..

Sour :: Sour (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

Aching :: Aching (a.) That aches; continuously painful. See Ache.

Miseasy :: Miseasy (a.) Not easy; painful.

Tail :: Tail (n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing..

Blind :: Blind (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

Angry :: Angry (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore..

Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (a.) Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..

Thirst :: Thirst (n.) To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink..

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